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I fully agreed to the guideline. Thanks a lot.
Certainly these guidelines will help us to be focused in our discussions - Sylvester Uganda NARO
fine - jayaveer Rao sankinani
Dear all, While I appreciate that the first question centres on success stories in mobile telephony, I would appreciate if an overview of what is involved in the whole process, what applications and technologhies are involved were given considering that some of us are coming from underdeloped countries, like Malawi, where although mobile phones are in pocession of everyone, even the rural farmer, their use is restricted to oral communication. I am saying this after going through several contributions which gives the impressions that we are not all using the same wave lenth. Kind regards, Francis Kachala Chancellor College University of Malawi
Thank you, Francis. I will bring this to the attention of the facilitators for tomorrow's discussion. Best, Charlotte
Dear Francis, I think your post is very interesting as the topic of oral communication has been treated and afforded many times, especially while thinking about mobile application that, first of all, are based on the voice. I'd say that "oral communication" does not mean necessarily "poor communication", especially these days when new vocal tools are coming up. For example, India have some very famous vocal services. So I would point that if a vocal service is based on a correct planning before its implementation than its limitations do not prevent it from being effective. I think the attention has to focus on to the process rather than to the product. Anyhow, if you follow the discussion "[url=http://www.e-agriculture.org/550.html?&no_cache=1&view=single_conf&cat_u... 1 - Day 3[/url]", it seems that many people are currently talking about these services. Maybe we can find there some other details on this point. Cheers, Luca (FAO)
Hi Francis, I see the topic we were discussing here is going on also in another thread that you may be interested in following. People are debating on the importance of the content and usability which is very connected to your observation about oral communication. You can click on the link below to read the discussion which is called [url=http://www.e-agriculture.org/550.html?&no_cache=1&view=single_thread&cat... Mobile phone does operate in Isolation: Fact Content and other ICT enablers are at play[/url]